A/N - I don't even know why I'm publishing a new story, I've already got 4 on the go. Anyway, this is a little SoccerCop fic, set before OB starts. It's about how Alison found out she was a clone, and my idea of what should've happened afterwards. If you like it please review, I will take requests/suggestions into account when I write. Slightly AU. On with the story. ~ R.

"Ali?" The voice snapped Alison Hendrix out of her daze. She had been staring across the football field at her boyfriend, Donnie, Alison thought he was cute and a bit of a bumbling idiot, but that didn't mean she liked him, she was just trying to make her mom and friends think she was normal. She sighed dejectedly and looked up, trying to pinpoint the source of the noise. "Alison?" her best friend Aynsley called again, tapping the small brunette on the shoulder this time to get her attention.
"Uh, yes? What is it?" She asked the tall blonde, craning her neck up at her.
"Chad and I are going back to the dorm room." Aynsley giggled girlishly, resting her hand on her boyfriend's puffed out chest as he smiled sleazily at Alison.
"Yeah, we're going to... uhm study." Chad piped in, wrapping his arm around Aynsley's waist as he spoke.
"Yeah, study." Aynsley affirmed, her laughter shrill and earpiercing before Chad spun her around so they could make out. Right there. Right in the middle of the game, in front of the whole college no less. "So, maybe you want to find somewhere else to go while we...uh...study."
"Do I have a choice?" Alison asked, not amused in the slightest. "Just, please, clean up after yourselves-and no 'studying' on my bed again!" Neither of them were listening to her, however, as they had already begun their walk back to the dorm.
"Thanks, Ali." They shouted back at her amidst flirtatious laughter and showmanship. Chad's words were accompanied by a wink in her direction. God, that boy made her skin crawl. She shuddered at the thought of his creepy smirk before waving to the pair, who were already half way out of the stadium at this point.

Why am I even here? She asked herself. She had only come because Aynsley dragged her out, promising that she wouldn't go off with Chad again. This wasn't the first time supposed 'best friend' had broken this promise. Alison was abandoned, and there really was no reason for her to stay for the remainder of the football match, other than to trick herself into forcing feelings for Donnie, which she really couldn't be bothered to try again. She decided to leave, so gathered her things up, navigating the crowd like a small boat crossing the ocean. The students, mostly young men, were hollering and screeching at the footballers to "GET THE HELL INTO THE ENDZONE" and suchlike.

Once she had left the stadium, she had no idea what to do. She couldn't go back to the dorm, all of her friends were at the match and she had already eaten, so she couldn't go for dinner. She considered just demanding they find somewhere else as their sex-lair, but the through of walking in and finding Aynsley and Chad getting down to it on her bed again made her shudder, for the second time that evening.

After a while of thinking, she decided to go for a drive. She didn't have anywhere particular in mind, she just wanted to be anywhere but college right now. That's how she ended up in East York, at the beach, an hour away from college. She was just sat in the sand, skipping the occasional stone across the water. She was annoyed. This was the third time in the space of a week that she couldn't go back to her dorm. She was running out of places to go instead. It wasn't like she wanted to spend anymore time with Donnie than she already did. She really had to do something about him - she really felt no attraction to him whatsoever. Since she could remember, she'd always liked girls. Girls were so beautiful and soft, but a college was both expensive and something she had always wanted. She couldn't afford it on her own, and her mom would never help her if she knew Alison's little secret. Therefore, she had to continue dating Donnie; continue living this lie at least until she graduated. She didn't have a choice.

The cold hit her like a hammer. It was dark by now, and the warm day was long gone. She hadn't brought a jacket with her, not knowing she would be out this long, not knowing that the night was going to be so cold. She pulled her knees up to her chin and wrapped her arms around them to conserve the heat. She shivered in the dark like that for ages, checking her phone every few minutes for any indication that Chad and Aynsley were done with their little study break. No such luck, though. It must've been about an hour before she was approached by a very drunk, very young man. He stumbled across the sand to where she sat, beer bottle still in his hand, and slurred what could've only been pick up lines at her.

"Hi," He smiled cheerily, hiccuping part-way through the word.
"Hello." Alison replied, standing from the ground, much more reserved than her intoxicated admirer.
"You're beautiful. Do you want to come back to my place?" He asked boldly. Alison laughed at his inebriated state, shaking her head.
"No, thank you. I'm quite alright here." She answered politely.
"Pffshhh, your loss." The drunk man stated, stumbling back towards the gaggle of his friends standing at the water's edge. Alison waved as they all walked off together, a few of them falling over along the way.

Alison sat back down, sighing again. She didn't know what to do with herself, so she just sat and silently cried for herself. She was interrupted by someone sitting down next to her. She wasn't expecting it, but still managed to suck up her tears enough to smile politely at the person sitting next to her. She turned to meet the stranger, but she was shocked at what she found. Staring back at her was her own face.
"Who the heck are you?"
"I'm Beth. I think we need to talk." The stranger said. How could it be that they had the same face? This wasn't happening, surely.
"Get away from me, freak." Alison screamed, standing once again and running down the beach, turning her head a few times, only to see Beth gaining on her.